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. other precious metals from a cyanide of po- UNITED STATES PATENT()FFICE.

\VILLIAM SUNDERLAND, OF LEHI CITY, UTAH TERRITORY.

PROCESS OF MANUFACTURING ALLOY,

SIEGIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 544,753, dated August20, 1895. I

Application filed February 8, 189

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM SUNDERLAND, a citizen of the United States,residing at Lehi City, Utah county, Utah Territory, have invented a newand useful Process of Manufacturing an Alloy or Metal Compound, to beused for manufacturing purposes and in the arts, and more especially forthe manufacture of all articles requiring strength and ability to resistatmospheric oxidation, and as an agent for extracting gold and silverand tassium and other chemical solutions that have been applied to oresto leach out said precious metals, and this process has never Serial No.501,879. (Specime'nm) tons of clay or other alumina-bearing earth, andfive hundred pounds of chloride of sodium. The resulting metal resistsoxidation under all atmospheric conditions,is of a bright whitish-bluecolor, and susceptible of a very high polish.

Vhat I do claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patentof the United States, is-

The process of manufacturing the described alloy, consisting in meltingin a furnace one half ton of lead and one tonof zinc, and graduallymixing through the molten metal a pulverized mixture of six tons of clayor alumina bearing earth, and five hundred pounds of chloride of sodiumas set forth.

WILLIAM SUNDERLAND.

Witnesses:

ERNEST G. ROGNON, WM. A. GRAVES.

